“As you might imagine, expected crowds in excess of 80,000 arriving to campus on a weekday for the season opening football game provides significant challenges related to traffic and parking, significantly effecting normal campus operations,” spokesman Joe Galbraith said in an email.

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“Playing the season opener against Georgia Tech is a tremendous opportunity to showcase our program and university as it is the first live broadcast for the ACC Network,” Galbraith said. “Non-Saturday football games are unusual at Clemson as we last played a Thursday home game in 2013.”

Clemson has already made a significant investment in preparing itself for the ACC Network.

The schools are investing in new equipment believing the new network will substantial increase their revenue. The conference hasn’t disclosed how much it expects revenue to increase.

In the 2016-17 school year, the ACC’s average payout for its 14 full-time members $26.6 million, according to the Associated Press. The SEC, which has its own network, distributed nearly $41 million per school that year, while the Big Ten averaged $37 million.